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Abstract
FERREIRA NETO, Josué, FERREIRA, Marcos David, NEVES FILHO, Lincoln de Camargo et al. Evaluation of eficiency of equipments used in the conservation of fruits and vegetables in the terminal warehouse of São Paulo. In Procedings of the 5th Encontro de Energia no Meio Rural, 2004, Campinas (SP) [online]. 2004 [cited 05 November 2024]. Available from: <http://www.proceedings.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=MSC0000000022004000100021&lng=en&nrm=iso> .
The shelf life of fruits and vegetables can be directly related to store temperature. At determined temperature and humidity a better conservation of the product can be achieve. The cold chain delays the aging, having its conservation guaranteed until the consumer. It was carried through in the Terminal Warehouse of São Paulo- CEAGESP, a research for evaluation of the condition of the cold chambers used. The cold storage equipments evaluation was measured using the follow parameters: temperature, humidity, isolation, type of equipment used, etc. It was analyzed, chambers used for cold storage, using thermal load calculation. Apple and Pears were the most stored commodities in CEAGESP, 50 % and bananas the second one (31,4%). Based in the average volume of commercialization, it was observed that 57% of the motors were over dimensioned.
Keywords : refrigeration; fruits; vegetables; evaluation.